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2015-10-17T18:26:07-07:00

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Women at the Parliament Saving the World

Last updated on: October 17, 2015 at 6:26 pm By Brandy Williams

I was riveted by Dr. Vandana Shiva's declaration that "the real solution of climate change is care for the earth." Read more

Interfaith

Women

2015-10-05T13:28:04-07:00

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Cultural Appropriation and Theft

Last updated on: October 5, 2015 at 1:28 pm By Brandy Williams

Exchange only happens when people are meeting as equals. Who decides what is cultural exchange, what is cultural appropriation, and whether cultural appropriation is theft? Read more

Personal magic

Women

2015-04-01T17:29:05-07:00

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Going Clear: is O.T.O. a “black magic cult”?

Last updated on: April 1, 2015 at 5:29 pm By Brandy Williams

In the documentary "Going Clear" author Lawrence Wright called Parsons "the head honcho in this black magic cult", the O.T.O., Ordo Templi Orientis. I don't identify as a member of a cult or as a practitioner of black magic. So what does "black magic cult" actually mean? Read more

O.T.O.

2016-03-08T13:11:19-07:00

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L. Ron Hubbard the Magickian?

Last updated on: March 8, 2016 at 1:11 pm By Brandy Williams

L. Ron Hubbard studied magick. How good was he at it? Read more

O.T.O.

2015-03-31T18:40:48-07:00

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L. Ron Hubbard and the O.T.O.

Last updated on: March 31, 2015 at 6:40 pm By Brandy Williams

Lawrence Wright touched on the early connection between Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and Jack Parsons, who was involved in a "black magic cult". The group he is talking about is my fraternity, Ordo Templi Orientis. Read more

O.T.O.

2020-04-09T12:54:38-07:00

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Are Demons Real?

Last updated on: April 9, 2020 at 12:54 pm By Brandy Williams

Medieval grimoires treated demons as fierce spirits with powers that could be harnessed to the magician's will through compulsion. In psychologized magic demons are projections of our unresolved issues and repressed selfish desires. Read more

Personal magic

2017-02-11T11:27:36-07:00

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Is “Do What Thou Wilt” a moral code?

Last updated on: February 11, 2017 at 11:27 am By Brandy Williams

Thelemites live by the Law of Freedom, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” Is this a moral code? Read more

Thelema

Law

2014-12-25T12:55:33-07:00

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Magicians and climate change

Last updated on: December 25, 2014 at 12:55 pm By Brandy Williams

When I first woke up to how desperate our situation has become I became suicidal. It was the one-two-three punch of climate change plus exhaustion of oil plus big corporations controlling the world. Read more

Esotericism

2017-03-21T21:07:01-07:00

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Thelema and Witchcraft, Part Two: Aleister Crowley, Witch?

Last updated on: March 21, 2017 at 9:07 pm By Brandy Williams

Gerald Gardner met Aleister Crowley in the last year of his life. We know that Crowley affiliated Gardner into the O.T.O., certainly at IVth degree and probably at VIIth, and issued him a charter to form an O.T.O. camp. There are persistent stories that the initiatory currents went both ways – not only was Gardner an O.T.O. initiate, but Crowley was a Witch. Read more

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Witchcraft

Crowley

2014-12-25T13:07:56-07:00

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Sex Positive Thelema

Last updated on: December 25, 2014 at 1:07 pm By Brandy Williams

I've always been sex positive. From my earliest physical stirrings I've believed that the power flowing in my body is sacred and enjoying that power is normal. Read more

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